Italian glass candy dish --what to you call these dots?

Oops meant what *do* you call these....

Is there a name for this "speckled" effect? Thanks.

 

The swirled "end" section looks like Venetian glass sommerso beads, where bits of opaque glass are embedded in clear glass.

In the photos, the edge areas have a different look, though, so I'm not sure if that would be considered "sommerso."

 

Sommerso translates to "Submerged" (It is a technique) A good way to think about it would be a like a vase made of a certain colour, then cover the entire thing in another colour. Here is a good example for you.

 

Honestly, I have no idea what that treatment is called, although I have heard it referred to as "Spatter" (I'd like to know what it is called if someone does know - @Ownedbybear perhaps?)

 

Thanks everyone. I think "Spatter" might be it. Much appreciated!

 

I calls it speckles.

Not sommerso as desperate demonstrates. The bead technique is often called sommerso, I know, but in glass pieces it has a different meaning - more the true one.

 

Ah, interesting that the same term is used differently in different segments of the Italian glass world.

 

I know. Sommerso also gets used generically as a technique name, regardless of origin. Bit like scavo.

 

The technique is to pick up pieces of frit (broken bits of glass) with the soft gather. it's called Frit pick up.

 

Thank you Bear and Cherryhill, plus all other responses.

Much appreciated!